By remediating a cluster against an image, you apply the software specified in the image to all the hosts in the cluster. So, by remediating a cluster, you make the non-compliant hosts compliant with the image that you set for the cluster.

During remediation, the hosts in the cluster are remediated in sequence. The hosts that have the incompatible compliance state are not remediated.

If a vCenter HA failover is initiated during the remediation of a cluster, the remediation task is canceled. After the failover finishes, you must restart the remediation task on the new node.

Prerequisites

Verify that you have the proper privileges. See vSphere Lifecycle Manager Privileges For Using Images.

Procedure

  1. In the vSphere Client, navigate to a cluster that you manage with a single image.
  2. On the Updates tab, select Hosts > Image.
  3. In the Image Compliance card, click the Remediate All button.
    The Review Remediation Impact dialog box appears. The dialog box contains detailed information about all changes that remediation will enforce on the hosts in the cluster.
  4. In the Review Remediation Impact dialog box, review the impact summary, the applicable remediation settings, and the EULA.
  5. To save and review the impact details later, click Export Impact Details
  6. Accept the EULA by selecting respective check box.
    The check box is selected by default.
  7. Click the Start remediation button.
    The Remediate Cluster task appears in the Recent Tasks pane. You can also observe the progress of the remediation task in the Image Compliance card. If remediation fails, vSphere Lifecycle Manager gives information about the reasons for the failure.